Column organization of content

• US 9,323,424 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Kruzeniski, Michael J., Guntaur, Paula, Wilson, Brian M., Voss, Chad Aron
• Primary Examiner(s): Mengistu, Amare
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jones, Shawna Stepp
• Application Number:
  US13/835,603
• Publication Number:
  US 20140109005A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,138 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04807 Pen manipulated menu
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/109 Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2746 Sorting, e.g. according to history or frequency of use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2747 Scrolling on a display

Abstract

Column organization of content is described. In an implementation, a mobile communications device configures a user interface to include a plurality of representations of content arranged according to a plurality of columns that permits navigation between first and second said columns upon detection of a gesture input via a touchscreen of the mobile communications device. The user interface is displayed on a display device of the mobile communications device. The first column is configured for vertical navigation through each of the plurality of representations and the second column includes a filtered subset of the plurality of representations such that at least one of the representations is included in the first column and not the second column.

Claims

1. A mobile communications device comprising:

a display device; and

one or more modules implemented at least partially in hardware using a processor and memory to;

configure a user interface to include a plurality of representations of content arranged according to a plurality of columns, separated by a space, that permits navigation between first and second said columns upon detection of a gesture input via a touchscreen of the display device the mobile communications device; and

display the user interface on the display device of the mobile communications device in which;

the first said column is configured for vertical navigation through each of the plurality of representations; and

the second said column includes a filtered subset of the plurality of representations such that at least one said representation is included in the first said column and not the second said column.

2. A mobile communications device as described in claim 1, wherein said representations that are accessible via the second said column are also accessible via the first said column.

3. A mobile communications device as described in claim 1, wherein the displaying is performed such that:

an entire width of one or more said representations included in the first said column is displayed on the display device;

a portion of a width of at least one said representation included in the second said column is displayed concurrently on the display device with the first said column; and

the one or more representations of the first said column are separated by a space from the portion of the at least one said representation of the second said column.

4. A mobile communications device as described in claim 3, wherein the gesture includes a tap of the space between the first and second said columns.

5. A mobile communications device as described in claim 1, wherein the gesture is not a pan gesture.

6. A mobile communications device as described in claim 1, wherein the user interface is further configured by the mobile communications device such that detection of a pan gesture causes the representations arranged in the plurality of columns to be displayed to have a substantially similar width.

7. A mobile communications device as described in claim 1, wherein representations in the first said column have a font size that is larger than a font size of representations in the second said column.

8. A mobile communications device as described in claim 7, wherein the user interface is further configured by the mobile communications device such that detection of a pan gesture causes the representations arranged in the plurality of columns to employ a substantially similar font size.

9. A mobile communications device as described in claim 1, wherein the content is contact information.

10. A device comprising:

a display device; and

one or more modules implemented at least partially in hardware using a processing system and memory to;

display representations of content in a first column on the display device as separated by a space from a concurrent display of partial representations of content in a second column; and

responsive to a gesture being detected via touchscreen functionality of the display device that involves interaction with the space, display representations of content in the second column concurrently with partial representations of content in the first column.

11. A device as described in claim 10, wherein the representations of content displayed as the partial representations of content are truncated at an edge of the display device.

12. A device as described in claim 10, wherein the representations of content in the first and second columns correspond to a matching level of a hierarchical file system.

13. A device as described in claim 10, wherein the interaction is a tap of the space.

14. A device as described in claim 10, wherein:

the representations of content in the first column have a font size that is larger than a font size of representations of content in the second column; and

responsive to a pan gesture being detected by the one or more modules via touchscreen functionality, display the representations of content in the first and second columns as having a matching font size.

15. A device as described in claim 10, wherein:

the display is performed by the one or more modules before the gesture is detected such that the partial representations of content in the second column are displayed concurrently with complete representations of the content in the first column; and

the display is performed by the one or more modules after the gesture is detected such that the partial representations of content in the first column are displayed concurrently with complete representations of the content in the second column.

16. A mobile communications device comprising:

a display device; and

one or more modules to implemented at least partially in hardware using a processor and memory to;

configure representations of contacts in a first column to have a font size that is larger than a font size of representations of contacts in the second column; and

responsive to a gesture being detected by the mobile communications device, display the representations of contacts in the first and second columns as having a matching font size.

17. A mobile communications device as described in claim 16, wherein the representations of contacts in the first column are separated by a space from a concurrent display of the representations of contacts in the second column that are displayed partially such that at least a portion of the representations of contacts in the second column is truncated.

18. A mobile communications device as described in claim 17, wherein responsive to another gesture being detected that involves interaction with the space, display the representations of contacts in the second column concurrently with partial representations of content in the first column such that at least a portion of the representations of contacts in the first column is truncated.

19. A mobile communications device as described in claim 16, wherein the first column includes representations of each of a plurality of the contacts that are accessible via vertical scrolling and the second column includes a subset of the representations such that at least one said representation included in the first column is not included in the second column.

20. A mobile communications device as described in claim 16, wherein:

the first column is configured for vertical navigation through each of a plurality of the representations; and

the second column includes a filtered subset of the plurality of the representations such that at least one said representation is included in the first column and not the second column.